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Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon and Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl have announced a new web site, www.PittsburghGoesGoogle.com, where residents, businesses and other organizations can make their best arguments for Google Inc. to deploy an ultrafast broadband network in Pittsburgh.

Hosts: The National Society of Black EngineersWhat: Pi-A-Professor!!!When: Friday, March 19, 2010 @ 4pmWhere: Wean Hall 5th floor AtriumPi-A-Professor celebration is a fun event where students and/or facultybuy raffle tickets to win a chance to toss a pie at the professor oftheir choice! The event is a fundraiser for NSBE, a community serviceorganization here on campus. Come by Wean Hall to celebrate yourfavorite transcendental! Tickets will be on sale in the University Center the week of 3/15-3/18.Brave Souls getting pied:

Dragon Runner, the 20-pound "throwable" reconnaissance robot developed at the Robotics Institute, is the world's most durable military robot, according to the editors of the 2010 edition of Guinness World Records.

PITTSBURGH—Replaying recent events in the area of the brain called the hippocampus may have less to do with creating long-term memories, as scientists have suspected, than with an active decision-making process, suggests a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Mary Shaw, the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science, has been named the recipient of the first Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education. Shaw will receive the award Wednesday night during the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), which is having its 23rd annual meeting this week at the University Center.

Alexei Efros, associate professor of robotics and computer science, has been awarded a three-year Finmeccanica Career Development Chair.Since 1989, the Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica has an endowed a chair to support outstanding young faculty members in the School of Computer Science. For the first time, however, the endowment is now supporting two simultaneous chairs— one filled by Efros and another that was filled last year by Carlos Guestrin, associate professor of machine learning and computer science.

PITTSBURGH—An already promising initiative to assist start-up firms that commercialize technologies associated with the Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is now expanding thanks to a three-year, $1.5 million Innovation Award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers.

Chris Harrison, a third-year PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has worked with scientists at Microsoft Research to develop Skinput, a technology that turns the human body into a giant touchscreen.Harrison previously had developed a way to turn ordinary tabletops and whiteboards into finger input surfaces. Skinput, developed with Microsoft researchers Dan Morris and Desney Tan, extends that idea further, providing an alternative to ever-shrinking and increasingly uncomfortable mobile keypads.

PITTSBURGH - Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLTC) will embed wireless sensors in the residences of about 50 older adults who live alone to see if they can detect subtle changes in everyday activities that indicate the onset of dementia or physical infirmities.

PITTSBURGH-Three prominent members of the Carnegie Mellon University community - Jacobo Bielak, University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Tom M. Mitchell, University Professor of Computer Science and Machine Learning; and Paul Nielsen, director and CEO of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) - have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE).